DC Comics has announced the release of a special one-shot dedicated to the Red Circle heroes titled Mighty Crusaders Special.

Bringing together the main four Red Circle characters for the first time, the book will be written by a quartet of scribes and drawn by Superman artist Javi Pina.

Eric Trautmann of The Shield; Brandon Jerwa, who writes The Inferno short; Matthew Sturges of The Web; and John Rozum, who writes The Hangman short, will collaborate on the story. It will follow on from a series of one-shots written by J. Michael Straczynski.

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"A lot of the stuff that became the story seeds for this Mighty Crusader Special started very early on, when I started working on The Shield," Trautmann told Newsarama. "We all got the marching orders that these characters needed to be integrated into the DC Universe."

The writer went on to say that around 30 other DC characters will appear in the story, which sees the heroes unite to ward off a "big monster who's tearing up the city."